I’ll always love Alex Smith

[Deberg_1990]

I had forgotten how spectacular he was at times for us.

I’ll always love Alex Smith 🥹 pic.twitter.com/RfIIMLgDnr

— Keaton (@kjonesy1587) January 31, 2025

[BWillie]

Wrong thread

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Patrick raves about how Alex taught him How to be a QB in the NFL. There is no reason to trash Alex. He gave his all. It’s not Alex’s fault he didn’t have enough talent to lead a team to a SB. It’s the Chiefs fault for asking him to lead a team when he didn’t have that level Of talent.

That was the thing with Smith. It absolutely wasn't about talent. It was about aggressiveness. He was the overall #1 pick. Very talented.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by JohnnyV13

I think Alex Smith was poorly served by the NFL.

Smith won a Heisman as a spread QB for Urban Meyer at Utah in 2005. The NFL hadn't accepted the spread as a viable NFL offense.

It wasn't until 2017, when Andy Reid unveiled a spread offense , that Smith finally had a system that resembled the offense that made him a college star. The KC offense lit the world on fire for six games and Smith led the NFL in passer rating.

The next season, Smith had the Redskins in position to go to the playoffs, but then had his horrific knee injury. We only had that one season in KC to see what he could do with a system that truly optimized his abilities.

Now, he's nowhere near Mahomes. But he as a better QB than he showed for most of his career. Of course, in 2017, he was surrounded by Ferrari talent. He had future HOF receiving targets in Tyreek and Travis Kelce, two bookend tackles, plus the NFL rushing leader in then rookie Kareem Hunt.

Give him the 2023 KC defense, and maybe you could win a Super Bowl. He'd be sort of like the Brock Purdy 49ers. Course, he wouldn't be the reason you won, but he could play point guard for a talented offense.

I'd rate him behind:

Mahomes
Dawson
Montana
Trent Green
Alex

Eh he had a Marty like way of finding ways not to lose games. A syndrome that plagues plenty of guys from Philip rivers to Herbert. Just finds ways to lose games he shouldnt when the lights get really bright. It’s the kind of game management style that wins you a lot of games but makes it hard to win the big ones.

But hell I get that we’re on a high of winning right now but I don’t know why that was a bad thing. It was like browns fans bitching about baker even though he won them their first playoff game in a million years. Even under Reid there are many many QBs who wouldn’t have gotten us that one playoff win we badly needed to reverse the curse

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

It doesn't ****ing matter. That era of Chiefs football is over and it's never coming back.

I'll say only this:

Alex Smith was better than DeBerg. That useless **** gets more credit than he ever deserved. Total loser.

And the QB DeBerg was almost as bad.

[crayzkirk]

I was always opposed to giving up draft picks for another team's cast off quarterback. Something the Chiefs were known for the years after 83. I never had anything personal against Alex; I remember a show where he and Aaron Rodgers did a skills test and it was clear who was the better passer. After seeing various videos where Tyreek was running wide open and Alex wouldn't throw the ball, I really soured on him.

You can't blame people for who they are and he was a good influence on Patrick.

Great human being and a QB that puts you in pergatory.

[Coochie liquor]

Originally Posted by Frazod

His mentorship of Mahomes and all that happened since has largely made me forget that every time he played the football gods flipped a coin. If it was heads, he played like a fearless, lights out stud. If it was tails, he played like Damon Huard.

But yes, he led us out of the dark times.

And broke the playoff curse/drought

[Chief Pote]

Alex was great, but his tendencies during a game were predictable and expected by a defense. Pat is on another level, no one knows what’s gonna happen when shit gets real. Not even Andy, that’s why Pat is special and no one compares.

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Deberg threads.

Prime entertainment

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

And the QB DeBerg was almost as bad.

He was the QB when I first started watching. Pinky game and all.

He was a tough SOB. And he wasn't terrible. He would have been a franchise QB but no franchise would stick with him. Three straight teams drafted young stud QB's while he was there.

Gun to my head I'm taking Alex over DeBerg but he wasn't the total disaster many describe him as.

[rico]

I admire the manner in which Alex selflessly mentored Mahomes when he didn’t have to. Solid dude.

But come on. Having him as our QB WHEN we had him as our QB was infuriating. He was so risk averse. Pretty easy to not throw interceptions when you don’t throw the ****ing ball further than 5 yards away max AS LONG AS there aren’t any defenders within 10 feet of the receiver. I hated having him as our QB. We were starved hungry at the time for a QB to lead us to wins and display huge balls in doing so… like Mahomes. The last thing our frustrated fanbase needed at that time was QB Purgatory… and most of us knew that’s exactly what it would end up being… at its best.

And the Alexsexuals. Funny how a guy’s fans can love him so much that it makes you in turn like him less! ��

[TripleThreat]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

Got the Chiefs back to respectability and was an excellent mentor for Mahomes (and that’s per Mahomes). The hate he gets from some here is bizarre.

Yeah when I heard him say that whole thing about how Alex said he got shitted on as a rookie and said he made sure that Mahomes didn’t receive that same treatment really gave me a different perspective and respect for him.

[TheSourceX1]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

You're not paying attention, apparently

He consistently hypes KC on ESPN

Ah but that's not "repping'. What I mean is that the podcast appearances I've seen he doesn't have any KC memorabilia in the back. No helmets or colors, and wasn't he on the FortyWhiners sideline recently? Maybe what happened in KC stings more than he lets on.

I just remember that when we drafted Showtime Mahomes I knew we'd turn the corner and make some real progress in the post season. Alex seemed to get rattled in that Shitsburg game and reverted to being check down charlie again and I was over it.

Thanks for what you did Alex and thanks for internalizing any hard feelings, but I was sure glad when you went to Washington.

[RollChiefsRoll]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

I wouldn’t change a thing from the A Smith era in hindsight

You wouldn’t change the outcome of the 2013 Colts playoff collapse?

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by RollChiefsRoll

You wouldn’t change the outcome of the 2013 Colts playoff collapse?

At the time it was devastating. In hindsight, I’ll chalk it up as an Andy Reid ‘lessons learned’ experience.

[kccrow]

Love him? It's hard to bury that I loathed him at the time due to his significant limitations.

Respect him in retrospect? Yes. He was a solid bridge to better things. He allowed KC to build up from the ashes and put a foundation in place that would later serve Patrick well while avoiding the mistake of drafting atrocious QBs in the 2013-2015 drafts that could have set this franchise back decades again.